Kenny Sultan is best known as the guitarist in the
perenially popular blues duo of Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan. West Coast
Blues is Sultan’s first album of solo instrumental blues and spans the
gamut from sexy shuffles to toe-tapping rags, with the odd slide number
thrown in for variety. Kenny Sultan is a best selling author of guitar
blues videos and music books.

GUITAR BLUES

This new solo outing by
Kenny Sultan is a fresh set of fourteen tunes, most composed by Kenny
himself: mostly blues, with a few rags tossed in for spice.

In the artist's words...

I
had such a fi ne time making my fi rst solo CD, I thought, why not do
another? Luckily for me, the bossman (James Jensen) felt the same way.
Originally we thought we would do a ragtime record, but the blues just
kept on creeping in and suddenly we had what we called “guitar blues.”
Even the few rags on the CD became funky. Guess I’m stuck in that’s
just the way I play. So here we go again, music played from the heart,
with no overdubs, editing, ProTools, or tricks of any kind. The beer
was cold, the company good, the studio setting in the mountains —
awesome. All this, plus my engineers and co-producers, Daniel and Matt,
were great help in keeping it alive, as if I was sitting in your living
room just playing my guitar. Enjoy! ~ ~ Kenny Sultan

"This guy can play!" ~ ~ George Thorogood

“California Guitarist Kenny Sultan has been making
good-time acoustic blues recordings with partner Tom Ball for 20 years.
On WEST COAST BLUES, Sultan steps out on his own with an
all-instrumental effort that spans the spectrum of unplugged blues,
from the monotonic bass of Lightning Hopkins to the 12-string slide of
Bo Carter. Sultan uses the old masters as jumping off points, injecting
jazzy chords and improvisational flourishes into simple motifs.
There’s nothing too showy here, just fluid grooves and a slew of very tasty licks.”~ ~ Acoustic Guitar magazine